The patient is rallying from surgery but isn't in top shape yet. And so the doctors remain attentive.
That describes PBS Hawaii's Television Master Control system, which has had the operational equivalent of a heart transplant in the last week.
The system, fresh out of surgery and full of new high-definition capacity, is being nursed back to full vigor.
A little after 8 tonight, following guest Puakea Nogelmeier on Long Story Short, and before Part One of Nova's three-part "Becoming Human," the screen went blue-gray and silent for a couple of minutes.
Yes, there have been fits and starts in this uncharted process of installing heavy-duty high-definition capacity in a rare fully automated ACE Master Control system--and staying on the air all the while.
It's been a grueling process for our staff broadcast engineers, a top PBS ACE system expert, and a team of specialty "integrators," working long hours starting before dawn in a chilled windowless space. Somehow they have managed to keep a sense of humor as they established and tested an intricate network of interconnections.
PBS Hawaii's VP of Content Delivery Steve Komori says the specialists are headed home tomorrow after more than a week of meeting challenges. It's still a work in progress. Steve says it may take a few more weeks to smooth things out.
Meantime, we're returning to our full regular schedule, including BBC World News and local programmng. Most of the time, our broadcasting looks great; we're aiming for looking great all the time.
We ask for your continued patience and understanding on occasion, as we pursue the goal of bringing you abundant, glorious high-def pictures on PBS Hawaii.
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